How Dwyane Wade Inspired Gabrielle Union to Adapt ‘The Idea of You’

Gabrielle Union revealed that her age-gap romance along with her husband, Dwyane Wade, impressed her to adapt The Concept of You.

“Being impressed by Robinne [Lee]‘s guide and realizing that Solène’s story was a really particular story,” Union, 51, stated throughout a post-screening Q&A on Sunday, April 28. “I used to be like ‘I would like in.’ I dwell this! I’ve acquired a youthful man with an enormous life.”

The Concept of You facilities round 40-year-old Solène (Anne Hathaway), who falls in love with 24-year-old musician Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine) after taking her teenage daughter, Izzy (Ella Rubin), to see the group August Moon carry out at Coachella.

For Union, a scene the place Solène holidays with a youthful crowd reminded her of her personal expertise touring with Wade, 42. (Union and Wade, who exchanged vows in August 2014, have an virtually 10-year age hole.)

“She comes along with her issues as a result of she’s nervous about solar safety and all the kinds,” Union stated. “I like it as a result of it jogs my memory of after I trip with a few of my husband’s pals. It’s like, ‘Oh, so nobody’s heard of Jefferson Airplane?’”

When it was revealed that The Concept of You can be tailored onto the large display screen, followers drew comparisons between the primary characters and Harry Kinds and Olivia Wilde’s earlier romance. (The pair, who had been linked from January 2021 to November 2022, had a 10-year distinction.)

Nevertheless, Hathaway, 41, slammed the hypothesis that Kinds, 30, and Wilde, 40, impressed the film. “No, simply no,” she stated throughout an interview with Further in March.

In the course of the SXSW Movie & TV competition in March, Hathaway detailed showcasing the pair’s age hole romance within the film, which is predicated on the 2017 novel of the identical title by Lee.

“For some motive, we discuss coming-of-age tales as being one thing that occurs to you within the earliest a part of your life, and I don’t find out about you, however I really feel like I preserve blooming,” she stated. “I don’t need to be pigeonholed and don’t need to be positioned in a field of what kind of movies I’ve to be making due to my age, gender and since I gained an Oscar. I need to have enjoyable, dammit. It speaks to me.”

The Concept of You premieres Thursday, Might 2 on Prime Video.